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Protein folding is one of the age-old biological problems that refers to the mechanism of understanding and predicting how a protein's linear sequence of amino acids folds into its specific three dimensional structure.This structure is…

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to numerous cellular processes, and their characterization is vital for understanding disease mechanisms and guiding drug discovery. While protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated…

Local and global inference methods have been developed to infer structural contacts from multiple sequence alignments of homologous proteins. They rely on correlations in amino-acid usage at contacting sites. Because homologous proteins…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-30 Nicola Dietler , Umberto Lupo , Anne-Florence Bitbol

Predicting the change in binding free energy ($\Delta \Delta G$) is crucial for understanding and modulating protein-protein interactions, which are critical in drug design. Due to the scarcity of experimental $\Delta \Delta G$ data,…

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This paper is divided in two parts. In the first part, the inverse spectral problem for tight-binding hamiltonians is studied. This problem is shown to have an infinite number of solutions for properly chosen energies. The space of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 E. Rivera-Mociños , E. Sadurní

In this study, we propose an analytic statistical mechanics approach to solve a fundamental problem in biological physics called protein design. Protein design is an inverse problem of protein structure prediction, and its solution is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-26 Tomoei Takahashi , George Chikenji , Kei Tokita

In the course of evolution, proteins show a remarkable conservation of their three-dimensional structure and their biological function, leading to strong evolutionary constraints on the sequence variability between homologous proteins. Our…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-07 Carlo Baldassi , Marco Zamparo , Christoph Feinauer , Andrea Procaccini , Riccardo Zecchina , Martin Weigt , Andrea Pagnani

The research of metamaterials has achieved enormous success in the manipulation of light in an artificially prescribed manner using delicately designed sub-wavelength structures, so-called meta-atoms. Even though modern numerical methods…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wei Ma , Feng Cheng , Yihao Xu , Qinlong Wen , Yongmin Liu

Inverse protein folding, the process of designing sequences that fold into a specific 3D structure, is crucial in bio-engineering and drug discovery. Traditional methods rely on experimentally resolved structures, but these cover only a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Igor Melnyk , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan

Global coevolutionary models of homologous protein families, as constructed by direct coupling analysis (DCA), have recently gained popularity in particular due to their capacity to accurately predict residue-residue contacts from sequence…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-23 Matteo Figliuzzi , Pierre Barrat-Charlaix , Martin Weigt

This paper presents a method of reconstruction a primary structure of a protein that folds into a given geometrical shape. This method predicts the primary structure of a protein and restores its linear sequence of amino acids in the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-04 Andrii Riazanov , Mikhail Karasikov , Sergei Grudinin

The precise sequence of aminoacids plays a central role in the tertiary structure of proteins and their functional properties. The Hydrophobic-Polar lattice models have provided valuable insights regarding the energy landscape. We…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-30 K. Silpaja Chandrasekar , M. V. Sangaranarayanan

The primary structure of proteins, that is their sequence, represents one of the most abundant set of experimental data concerning biomolecules. The study of correlations in families of co--evolving proteins by means of an inverse…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-16 Sara Lui , Guido Tiana

We present the MSA-to-protein transformer, a generative model of protein sequences conditioned on protein families represented by multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). Unlike existing approaches to learning generative models of protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-05 Soumya Ram , Tristan Bepler

Recent advances in coarse-grained lattice and off-lattice protein models are reviewed. The sequence dependence of thermodynamical folding properties are investigated and evidence for non-randomness of the binary sequences of good folders…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Peterson

Sequence set is a widely-used type of data source in a large variety of fields. A typical example is protein structure prediction, which takes an multiple sequence alignment (MSA) as input and aims to infer structural information from it.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-27 Fusong Ju , Jianwei Zhu , Guozheng Wei , Qi Zhang , Shiwei Sun , Dongbo Bu

The use of generative machine learning models, trained on the experimentally resolved structures deposited in the protein data bank, is an attractive approach to sampling conformational ensembles of proteins. However, the ensembles…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-22 Akashnathan Aranganathan , Eric R. Beyerle

The prediction of the three-dimensional structures of the native state of proteins from the sequences of their amino acids is one of the most important challenges in molecular biology. An essential ingredient to solve this problem within…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristian Micheletti , Flavio Seno , Jayanth Banavar , Amos Maritan

Compound-Protein Interaction (CPI) prediction aims to predict the pattern and strength of compound-protein interactions for rational drug discovery. Existing deep learning-based methods utilize only the single modality of protein sequences…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-14 Lirong Wu , Yufei Huang , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Bozhen Hu , Haitao Lin , Zicheng Liu , Stan Z. Li

Functional protein-protein interactions are crucial in most cellular processes. They enable multi-protein complexes to assemble and to remain stable, and they allow signal transduction in various pathways. Functional interactions between…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-14 Anne-Florence Bitbol